"0 come, let us worship and bow
down: let us kneel before the Lord our
maker. For he is our God; and we are
the people of his pasture, and the
sheep of his
hand
'
95:6, 7, first
part).
According to the
SDA Bible
Commentary,
vol. 3, p. 625,
twenty-three of the 150 psalms deal
with "Prayer, Praise, and Adoration."
These are Psalms 16, 55, 65, 86, 89, 90,
95-100, 103, 104, 107, 142, 143, 145-150.
These psalms contain some of the
most widely known gems of sacred
poetry. For example:
"Thou wilt shew me the path of life:
in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy
right hand there are pleasures for
evermore" (Ps. 16:11).
"As for me, I will call upon God; and
the Lord shall save me. Evening and
morning, and at noon, will I pray, and
cry aloud: and he shall hear myvoice"
(Ps. 55:16, 17).
"For thou, Lord, art good, and ready
to forgive; and plenteous in mercy
unto all them that call upon thee" (Ps.
86:5).
"God is greatly to be feared in the
assembly of the saints, and to be had in
reverence of all them that are about
him" (Ps. 89:7).
"Lord, thou hast been our dwelling
place in all generations. Before the
mountains were brought forth, or ever
thou hadst formed the earth and the
world, even from everlasting to
everlasting, thou art God" (Ps. 90:
1, 2).
"0 worship the Lord in the beauty of
holiness: fear before him, all the
earth" (Ps. 96:9).
"Enter into his gates with
thanksgiving, and into his courts with
praise: be thankful unto him, and
bless his name" (Ps. 100:4).
"Bless the Lord, 0 my soul: and all
that is within me, bless his holy name.
Bless the Lord, 0 my soul, and forget
not all his benefits" (Ps. 103:1, 2).
"0
give thanks unto the Lord, for he
is good: for his mercy endureth for
ever" (Ps. 107:1).
Among the songs of praise are
Psalms 145 to 150. In this lesson we will
study these six, each of them
attributed to David. They reveal in a
unique way the response to his
heavenly Father of one who knows
God.
"There are psalms for every mood,
for every need: psalms for the
disappointed, for the discouraged, for
the aged, for the despairing, for the
sick, for the sinner; and psalms for the
youthful, for the vigorous, for the
hopeful, for the faithful, believing
child of God, for the triumphant saint.
. . . There are psalms in which the
sinner tarries 'in the secret' of God's
'presence' under the shadow' of His
'wings' and pours out his soul alone;
and there are psalms in which the saint
of God joins the vast assembly of
worshipers in the great congregation,
and, to the accompaniment of all
manner of instruments, shouts aloud
the praise of God. And throughout the
whole collection, God is exalted as the
solution to all man's problems, the
ultimate All in all: our hope, our
confidence, our strength, our
triumph—incarnate in the Messiah,
whose coming brings redemption and
ushers in the universal and eternal
reign of righteousness."—SDA
Bible
Commentary,
vol. 3, pp. 620, 621.